European Police got a shock on their lives when investigating two abandoned suitcases on a train to Vienna when they discovered two Afghan women stuffed inside them.

Romanian border patrol officers stationed in the town of Curtici entered the luggage compartment of the train which was travelling to the Austrian capital having become suspicious of the bags. After deciding to open them, they found two women inside, who were trying to reach Austria illegally.

A spokesman for the police force, on the border of Hungary and Romania, said: ‘Following checks we have established that the two people in question are from Afghanistan, aged 25 and 59.’ They said that they had later also arrested a man from Afghanistan who had apparently run away when he spotted the police officers and was hiding in a different part of the train pretending to know nothing about with the suitcases

The women told police they wanted to get into the Schengen area and had resorted to using suitcases because they did not have a valid visa. Romanian police are now preparing a case against all three for attempting to illegally cross the state border. It was not revealed what punishment they might face.